August 2024: Crucial Communications Across Languages

Community policing has become an increasingly important aspect of the profession, and it is crucial that historically marginalized communities not be forgotten in these efforts. By understanding and connecting with the underserved groups in their communities, police can adapt current practices to build relationships and provide safer outcomes during interactions. 

GUEST EDITORS: Chris Hsiung and Jennifer Styles

Articles

• Lighting the Fire Within

  By Taylor Sayers, Director of Corporate Services, UCCM Anishnaabe Police Service
  The UCCM Anishnaabe Police Service is a small agency delivering policing services to six First Nation communities on and around Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. The organization has a total of 45 ...

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• The Power of Lived Experience

  By Leigh Anne McKingsley, MSSW, MPA, Senior Director, and Josh Branch, JD, Program Attorney, Disability and Justice Initiative, The Arc
  People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience unique and serious disadvantages when involved with criminal or juvenile justice systems. Behaviors related to a person’s dis...

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• Improving Community Policing for Underserved Older Adults

  By Ashley French, PhD; Jeanette Loudy, PhD; and Thomas Rzemyk, EdD, Columbia Southern University
  The underserved elder citizen population in the United States is growing at an unprecedented rate and becoming more demographically and economically diverse. It is predicted that by 2040, the elder po...

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• Crucial Communications Across Languages

  By Natasha Haunsperger, Officer, Portland Police Bureau, Oregon
  “A culturally responsive justice system does not mean the immigrants are not obligated to meet the same requirements and standards of accountability that the system imposes on all Americans. Rather,...

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